Dan_Nguyen

After 1.5x-2x the schooling, 3x-5x the apprenticeship period, and around 6x the debt.

Not sure if you're joking (I can be tone deaf with text comments), but that's never going to happen. Reddit specifically stated they're only going to open suggestions for 501(c)(3) organizations. Besides, even if they didn't, it'd be hard getting money from an American company into the hands of someone actively being pursued by the American government.

I don't at all.

1. The moderation is very recent news, and something like this isn't banged out in 24 hours. Likely this has been in the works for a while, before news broke of the Snowden moderation.

2. The mods on subreddits like r/news are different people from the admins of Reddit. Obvious bias within the subreddits, but I have little reason to believe that it's a site-wide conspiracy from the admins rather than controversial decision making from subreddit mods.

This is precisely what happened to me. I started off in Molecular and Cellular Bio, but recently switched to programming. Like you said, the field is simply brutal. Making it to the top of your career track is extremely difficult and demands a lot of time and effort for little pay. Not to mention that final step, becoming a professor, is out of your control as all you can do is wait for an existing one to retire or die.

It's not always women taking shots of themselves.

Long before she met me, my fiancee had an extremely abusive bf. He'd drug her then take pictures and videos of her. When she wanted to leave he threatened to release those pictures to her family. When she finally did (after he assaulted her and her parents), he kept his word.

I won't go into the profanities that accurately express my visceral emotions, but I think a law like this is long overdue. It's wrong that people who take pictures of themselves are being blackmailed to stay with those same pictures, but with the focus the media has on teenagers sexting inappropriately, I feel people forget there are others out there who had these materials taken against their will.

The Nexus lines are not the only Android devices out there. Google has a huge interest in the rest of the Android lines and wouldn't want to piss off OEMs by including an app that would void their warranties.

I definitely agree with what that one Reddit comment says - if you can't sideload it then you shouldn't flash your ROM.

My girlfriend uses a 2008 aluminum MB (non-Pro), and I never had any issues upgrading her to previous versions of OSX. Now it's running Mountain Lion and downloading Mavericks as I type.

Molecular and Cellular Biology major here, and it was the same story with my program. 500 students in two intro bio classes became 250 students my second semester and 150 students my third. Eventually, less than 50 students received their diploma across every cell bio major (MCB, Immunology, Microbiology, etc.)

Reading the comments on here I wonder if it's a "tradition" among STEM majors. I honestly thought the pressure, stress, and competition in my program was universal across all fields until I met my current girlfriend. The very idea of a 90% attrition rate or classes that practically required three hours of sleep a night was completely foreign to her. Even the very culture within our programs were radically different. I was subjected to a lot of "Most of you won't get your MDs or PhDs", whereas she had a much more encouraging rather than discouraging environment.

I know I'm a little late on replying, but I just wanted to say thank you for your comment. This entire post was something I needed to hear.

I'd politely disagree. My mother is already showing early stages of Alzheimer's, and while I honestly hope for a cure or even for treatments to arrest the progression of the disease, with medicine I think it's something that should be done right the first time.

Honestly, I am tempted to want to push this out myself. In the end though, given the medical, legal, and social (note: anti-vaccine crowds) implications of pushing out a faulty drug, I think in the long run it's better to wait and make sure it's safe first before opening treatment to the public.

(Bear in mind I'm going into biomedical research, which is a very different field than CS or Entrepreneurship, which seem to make up the majority of HN users)

For me it's not the fear of not fitting in, per se, but the loneliness that comes with being misunderstood by those around you.

I find that the point he made of not being understood when I started to pursue my career aspirations rings very true. I wouldn't blame others' inability to understand on ignorance so much as lack of experience, in that not that many people have experienced the biomedical research field for themselves, so therefore have no way of understanding the nuances or the lifestyle of it all beyond hearsay.

That lack of understanding in turn leads to an inability to connect with me, or conversely, an inability for me to connect with most people. My career takes up the majority of my time and thoughts, and as a result is one of the most important aspects of my own life. When people are unable to understand that, they in effect do not understand me as a person.

Furthermore, there's the fact that I and other people who want very badly to accomplish their dreams are often very hardworking. A bit anecdotal, but I've also found that the people who are physically in my life are by far not driven to work as hard as I do. I find a sense of happiness working 12 hours in a research lab and coming in on weekends. The "average" person in my life, however, is the sort of person who looks at a career as a means to make money; a commitment they only have to fulfill between the hours of 9AM and 5PM on weekdays. Anything beyond that (time after work, weekends, etc.) should be dedicated to partying and the like.

Going back to the point I was making before: these differences in personalities between myself and almost everyone in my life makes it almost impossible for me to truly connect with someone.

And for reasons I can't really explain beyond "human nature", even though it makes perfectly logical sense to focus on my work and be as efficient as possible, I find that interpersonal connections to be something I cannot live without. For me, there is immense comfort to be had in being able to talk to people about your life (which again for me mostly revolves around work) and have a true understanding of it all.

I'm very lucky enough to have a small yet very close group of friends who are like that (although mostly online due to college; thank you internet). However in the past two years I've already fell out of contact with most of my friends because of my shift from (and I do apologize as I can't think of a better term) a commonplace life to one that is unorthodox to most people. So a big lingering fear of mine is, "If I continue on with my goals, will I still have anyone in my life I can connect with?" While so far the answer has been "yes", the past two years still leave a very strong, lingering fear in the back of my mind. And while it's very true that I've come into contact with and maintain a personal relationship with many people above me and have gone through the same path as me, for me it's no replacement for having people in your life that are going through the same life challenges that you're experiencing yourself. As the saying goes, "Misery loves company".

On a more minor note unrelated to the article, another sort of fear I've felt (and am still feeling) is really fear of the unknown. I was the sort of person who did just enough in my life. I'd go so far as to say I was complacent with myself. This whole lifestyle of being ambitious, proactive, and actively and constantly working towards a dream that once felt unobtainable to you is all a new experience. Others above me/more experienced than me have told me stories about their own lives but in the end actually going through with the life yourself is completely different than hearing stories about it. For me, everything I'm doing now is new, unfamiliar, unknown, and as a result it's nerve wracking and scary.

While I know that everything above is not universal and there will be others on HN that have different experiences/viewpoints, these are my honest viewpoints shaped by my own experiences in my life. I hope this helped with your question.

It's very harmless. Obviously there's a good number more technical details in here, but the gist of it is we take the parts of the HIV virus that makes it so good at proliferating, take out the genetic material that makes it harmful to our cells, and put in our own genetic information for the HIV-derived virus to inject into our target cells (known as a viral vector).

Contrary to the mental connotation, it's a very harmless procedure that's often used even in BSL-2 labs. It's not to say that there aren't risks involved, but chances are you're not going to end up with AIDs.

HIV-derived lentiviruses have been in use for a long time now and are a proven research tool. Coincidentally I just grew and harvested a new batch of lentiviruses this past Tuesday to treat cancer cells with shRNA.